re: #273 LudwigVanQuixote

The idea that the king is subject to the law is invoked many times in regards to both Saul and David.

As a direct analog to Magna Carta, the story about David pouring out the water (that his men brought back to him after breaking through Philistine lines) directly refers to this.

We are fortunate here in the west that our societies developed with ideas such as this one. That our leaders are not above the law. Of course, it took a few thousand sometime bloody years to get to were we are now. The biblical examples, the Greek City States, the Roman Republic, even the leges barbarorum all have contributed.